The clear implication was that the nation's drilling brain trust agreed a moratorium was necessary.
Even the EPA report acknowledges that Pavillion's drilling conditions are far different from other areas of the country, such as the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania.
Low oil prices had the company's drilling rigs pumping out losses.
In the Middlefield case, dairy farmer Jennifer Huntington, owner of Cooperstown Holstein, is appealing the ruling of a state Supreme Court judge in Otsego County upholding the town's drilling ban.
This past summer, McMoRan made a deal with Newfield Exploration to acquire a large number of producing properties from Newfield that included acreage adjacent to the principal areas of McMoRan's drilling programs.
After plaintiffs' attorneys rested their case Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier ruled there was no evidence that BP's drilling fluids contractor M-I LLC made any decision that led to the blowout of BP's Macondo well.
It's drilling down to find out what strains are being reported, see if they are close to the current vaccine and if not, determine if the vaccine needs to be changed to include new virus candidates.
President Obama's drilling moratorium officially includes only projects in more than 500 feet of water, but the U.S. Minerals Management Service, a division of the Interior Department that regulates deepwater drilling, has held up shallow-water permits, too, until it can review safety standards.
There is a similar challenge over Longmont's own drilling regulations, which are more stringent than even the state's new ones.
The sea around northern Sakhalin, in which the project's offshore drilling rigs stand, freezes for half the year and is home to a rare whale.
They were protesting over the oil explorer's Arctic drilling operations.
Like a once-quiet neighborhood cut up by an expressway and laced with off ramps, northeastern forests are changing because of the pipelines crisscrossing them amid the region's gas drilling boom, experts say.
As a result, the U.S. drilling industry in the Gulf of Mexico has collapsed, output has dropped, rigs have relocated to foreign shores, and at least one drilling company has filed for bankruptcy.
Plank, who has seen more than a few business cycles over his 44-year career in the oil business, began to cut spending last year as rental rates for U.S. drilling rigs doubled -- and tripled -- on rising demand.
Central and South America lost operating income in drilling and production, hindered by the U.S. moratorium on offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico following BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Richardson doubled the Baggies' lead, collecting Horsfield's backheel and drilling the ball past Ashdown from 10 yards.
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And Brazilian full-back Rafael added a third after collecting Darren Fletcher's pass before drilling past goalkeeper Chris Kirkland.
That's because offshore drilling is a riskier proposition and oil companies require sustained high prices to justify it.
Pacific Drilling S.A. shares are currently trading off about 5.1% on the day.
Transocean, the world's largest offshore drilling contractor, said its top priority is safety.
Overlooked is the world's largest land drilling contractor, NABORS INDUSTRIES (68, NBR) .
And it's true of drilling in the deep ocean, which, as the 2010 disaster in the Gulf of Mexico showed, we obviously haven't figured out quite yet.
The plan still requires three levels of state and federal permits before the path will be clear for the area's first new drilling since a major oil spill in 1969.
The train wreck illustrates one economic reality of the U.S. shale drilling boom, which is that energy companies have turned to shipping by rail as pipeline capacity has been filled.
Now, the regulators have issued what they tout as the country's toughest energy drilling regulations, requiring rigs to be at least 500 feet away from occupied buildings and take other steps to limit pollution.
Gas drilling company Lenape Resources, based in western New York, had sued the Livingston County town of Avon and the state Department of Environmental Conservation over the town's moratorium on drilling, saying the action threatened to put it out of business after it had operated in the town for decades.
But the timing of Bush's support for offshore oil drilling this week may spell trouble for McCain's efforts to distance himself from the embattled White House.
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Granted, when Shell acquired the Arctic drilling leases from the Federal government, the U.S. boom in shale drilling was only just beginning.
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There are indications that BP's approach to the drilling of the Macondo well was similarly slapdash.
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